Improvement in fences



Fence.

WITNESSES INVENTOR, 4%

ATTORNEY.

N. PETERS. FMOTO-LITNOGRAPNE UNITED STATES PATENT Orrro DAVID GORDON, OF CLINTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

I M PROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 197,119, dated November 13, 1877; application filed January 2, 1877.

To all whom it may concern: ground, the pickets themselves may furn Be it known that I, DAVID GORDON, of Olinthe upright braces F F on one side of the for ton, in the county of Allegheny and State of though separate braces may be used, as sho Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved in Fi 1. Fence; and I do hereby declare that the fol If the ground is inclined, the lower rall lowing is a full and exact description thereof, may be shifted laterally upon the cross-b0: reference being had to the accompanying draw- 0, so as to bring it vertically under the up ings, making part of this specification. rail, if for picket fence; or the short posts 11 Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a fence be driven with the proper inclination to s constructed according to my invention; Fig. the inclination of the ground and make 1 2, a cross-section of the same; Fig. 3, a crossfence upright, though the fence itself may section, showing a modified arrangement of inclined for some purposes. If the fence is the invention; Fig. 4, a view of a part deold rail fence, the additional rails maybe nal cached, showing one mode of coupling the to one row of braces.

panels or lengths of the fence. This invention is applicable to picket, I: Like letters designate corresponding parts wire, and all the ordinary kinds of fences. in all the figures. is equally applicable for new fences and My invention consists in the combination of ,repairing old fences, the posts of which be short posts, rails, and braces, substantially as rotted away, as the short posts and braces e hereinafter specified. I be applied thereto while the fence is still stal Instead of the usual full-length posts to susing or in place. tain the fence, at the end of each panel or By this invention I dispense with the gre length of fence I drive into the ground two costand labor of setting posts. The fer short posts, A B, ranged transversely and at is very durable, with little cost of repair, sir a little distance apart, about as represented, only the short posts are liable to decay, a leaving them, when driven into the ground, they are easily and cheaply replaced. 'I with their upper ends projecting above the fence is strong and not likely to be blown or surface of the ground, say three or four inches, by strong winds, nor to be washed away or more if desired. Upon the tops of these lowlands by floods and freshets, since the sh( short posts I preferably nail a short piece of posts anchorthe fence to the ground. In sho board, 0, though this is not essential. One a very cheap, durable, and in every way( short post, B, is driven a-little inclined from sirable, fence is produced, of very general a a vertical position, as shown; but the other plieation. short post, A, is generally driven vertically, What I claim as my invention, and desire thoughitalso maybe inclined toward the other. secure by Letters Patent, is-

Over one short post, as A, there is nailed, or In a fence, the combination of short pos otherwise secured, the lower railD of the fence. A B, rails D H, and braces F G, construct Also, two braces, F G, (generally two strips and arranged substantially as and for the p1 of board,) are nailed at their lower ends, as pose herein specified. shown-one to the outside of one short post,

and the other to the outside of the opposite DAVID GORDON. short post-and they reach thence upward to e the upper rail H, to the opposite sides or edges Witnesses: of which, also, they are respectively nailed. WILLIAM BARTON, For ahandsome picket fence, and upon level MILLER GORDON. 

